News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The British government will seek to obtain an adequacy decision from Brussels over its data protection rules as it leaves the EU. Whitehall is also signalling interest in continuing to be involved in setting EU rules, a widely anticipated “future partnership” paper from the Department for Exiting the European Union …
The British government has started setting out its negotiating positions in a series of new papers released last week. More papers are to be released this week, ahead of a new round of Article 50 talks towards its withdrawal from the European Union to be held in the week of …
Proclaiming that you are open to global trade sits uneasily with being hostile to foreigners. Philippe Legrain on migration and the UK government’s current approach to trade policy.
UK trade secretary Liam Fox is in the United States for two days of talks with US counterparts as part of a recently established US-UK trade and investment working group. Fox will further travel to Mexico. Fox is on a mission to reassure its partners that Britain will deliver stability …
The House of Lords released a 130-page report Brexit: Trade in Goods this week. The report builds on extensive input from key British industries and a variety of independent consultancies and academics. What is striking in this report is an apparent mismatch between what the UK’s leading industries care …
A short comment by Iana Dreyer. EU member state guidelines on trade relations between the EU and Britain on the date of withdrawal from the EU released on Thuresday (29 June 2017) are still rudimentary. They explicitly focus on elementary issues: market surveillance of agriculture products, and the very basics …
On Saturday (24 June 2017), the British government announced its intention to maintain current trade preferences granted by the European Union to developing countries after it leaves the bloc. The Department for International Trade’s announcement remains very general in nature. It announces the continuation of the “Everything but Arms’ …
The biggest European textile business organisation Euratex released a position paper on the industry’s future trading relationship Britain as leaves the European Union. Euratex key demands are: a transitional arrangement that avoids any abrupt change in the trading relationship after March 2019, when the UK is set to depart, duty-free trade …
European business is pressing for an early solution for trading arrangements for the Brexit cut-off date set for 29 March 2019. The EU and the UK have made it official that they were formally launching the latter’s membership withdrawal negotiations on Monday 19 June 2017, as initially planned. Both sides …
British voters did not fulfil Prime Minister Theresa May’s wish to obtain a stronger majority in the House of Commons than her party, the Tories, already had. The result of the general elections held in the United Kingdom on Thursday (8 June 2017) could have significant ramifications for London’s future approach to exiting …
